God of War: Ascension's Sales Murdered By Previous Entry

God of War: Ascension failed to come within striking distance of the sales tally of its predecessor God of War III in the UK. Chart-Track reports that the first week sales of Sony Santa Monica’s recently released prequel were less than half those of its predecessor, which launched all the way back in 2010. Unfortunately, exact figures are unavailable.

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I was never interested in getting this...when a series of games gets this repetitive i lose interest, and prequels/ origin stories about a character that has been killed off just annoy me. I got similar franchise fatigue with assassins creed 2/brotherhood/revelations.

They tweeked the combat enough to make it extremely interesting and satisfying, in my opinion. You really had to strategize and focus to succeed instead of pressing square, square, triangle the whole game. At least on Hard anyway....

Maybe it's just me, but I'm finding Ascension to be very different from it's predecessors. The combat system is a lot more fluid, world interaction is fantastic and the new rage mechanic is pretty addictive.

I'll wait til final sales figures are out worldwide because this article doesn't even make logical sense. How could it get the second biggest opening of the series, behind GoW 2, if it didn't even come close to GoW3? Wouldn't it be at least third if it's behind both these games?